Good Hope to get new truck, plow

One local village will receive a new vehicle and plow to tend to its day-to-day errands and tasks thanks to unanimous approval from its board of trustees this week.

Good Hope Village President Todd Danner said Tuesday the village's pickup truck, as well as its plow, is 15 years old and needs replacing. By going through a state pool — with Peoria-based Koenig Supply — the new vehicle and plow could be purchased with "tremendous discounts" at about $31,000.

The truck, he said, itself went for just more than $26,000 with the plow accounting for the extra few thousand. Had the village ventured to acquire a truck off a dealership, he said, it'd likely have been around $38,000.

Danner said the board also continued talks over the village's sanitary sewer issues and that nothing had been officially resolved. They're also still looking over rankings and proposals for the village water filter upgrade.

"Nothing (was) moved on from or talked about from there," the president said.